New Poll: Smith Surging, Hales Improving, Brady Stalled

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The race for Portland mayor is a dead heat, with a new poll showing that state Rep. Jefferson Smith is gaining late momentum, and that businesswoman Eileen Brady is making no progress with voters despite spending nearly $1 million on her campaign.The poll was conducted by DHM Research for Oregon Public Broadcasting and Fox-12. The survey asked 400 likely Portland voters whom they would ...
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Let’s pick the next mayor the only sane way: with a bracket.

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The most exciting thing happening in Portland this week is the NCAA Basketball Tournament’s arrival at the Rose Garden.
The least exciting, this and every other week: the mayor’s race.
We can
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An environmentally themed Portland mayoral debate on Wednesday night saw two foiled gatecrashing attempts by lesser-known candidates on the ballot. The most surprising incident of the night came when moderator April Baer called the candidates onto the Benson High School auditorium stage, where a podium each was set aside for the three leading candidates: Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith. ...
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Mayoral candidates retain enough cash to have an impact as the campaigns hit the airwaves.

Elections
There’s a little more than two weeks before May primary ballots go out, and the contest for Portland mayor remains wide open.
The most competitive
mayoral primary in 20 years comes down to this:
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All three of the leading mayoral candidates released their income tax returns to WW this week. Their decision to do so was a gesture of transparency because, unlike property taxes, income tax information is private and candidates in city races have not typically made such information available. (The candidates released their returns to other media only after WW put in its requests.)The returns ...
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Jefferson Smith built a political machine. Now he’s trying to drive it to City Hall.

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On a recent Saturday morning, a
sleepy-eyed retired auto-parts worker named Gavin Griffin opened the
door of his Sabin-neighborhood home to find a blond giant on his
doorstep.
The strang
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There's no more exciting day than the day you start picking a mayor with March Madness brackets. Today, we kick the voting off with the Vera Katz Regional. It may be the toughest region in the tournament, especially because it involves the Timbers Army, and those people will stand in the rain for books about how they stood in the rain. They could sway this whole thing. Come back to wweek.com every ...
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Charlie Hales leans on big donors, and a Portland developer plays two sides.

Elections
Political candidates like to say every vote counts. When
it comes to campaign contributions, some people clearly have a louder
voice than others.
Last week, WW gave you an analysis of special-in
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